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Entries are being accepted for the East Central University Alumni Association’s Homecoming Golf Tournament on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Oak Hills Country Club in Ada. The tournament benefits the Student Alumni Grant Program and Alumni Scholarships. The cost is $125 per golfer. A lunch for all paid golfers will be held at 11:30 a.m. and the tee-off time is set for 1 p.m. You can register online at alumni.ecok.edu or by phone at 580-559-5651. Homecoming Sponsorship Packages are also available.

Thirty elementary students recently learned how to start a business when they participated in East Central University’s Junior Business Club.

The three-week academy, sponsored by ECU’s Stonecipher School of Business, guided Ada’s Willard Elementary School students into a business venture of lemonade stands. The students, divided up into six companies, learned how to create a business plan, obtained a loan to start up the business, built and painted their stand and sold lemonade at the Tigers’ home football game on Sept. 9.

Entries are being accepted for East Central University’s 2017 Homecoming Parade, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, at noon along Main Street in Ada. Entries are open for floats (competitive and non-competitive), decorated car or truck, marching bands and walkers. The theme for this year’s homecoming is “Oh! The Places Tigers Will Go!” Registration can be done online on the official ECU website at https://www.ecok.edu/student-development/campus-involvement/cab/homecoming .

Country music band Asleep at the Wheel will take the stage on Friday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in East Central University’s Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

The venerable Western swing band has been performing since 1970 and has won 10 Grammy Awards and released over 20 albums. Their highest-charting single “The Letter That Johnny Walker Read,” peaked at No. 10 in 1975, with their next highest being “House of Blue Lights” at No. 17 in 1987 (reached No. 12 on the Canadian charts).

East Central University student Srijita “Dia” Ghosh is already putting her entrepreneurial skills into action.

The senior from Kolkata, India won the pitch competition and placed second in the small business division at the i2E Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup held this past spring.

Ghosh’s winning product is called “StoPanic,” an emergency device, resembling a hearing aid, that is designed to help people overcome panic attacks by playing calming music when it detects certain physiological changes.

East Central University’s Linscheid Library is partnering with the Ada Public Library in cherishing the freedom to read during “Banned Books Week,” set for Sept. 25-30.

A series of events is scheduled to celebrate the freedom to read and raise awareness of the harms of censorship.

Throughout the week, anyone can participate in a scavenger hunt by visiting the Linscheid Library or Facebook.com/ECUlibrary each day from Sept. 25-29 to find a clue. Those who find the banned book cover at its hidden location, can follow the instruction on the back to return it for a prize.

Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO) Regent Connie Reilly (left) and East Central University President Katricia G. Pierson are all smiles during Pierson’s ECU Presidential Inauguration on Friday, Sept. 15, in the Ataloa Theatre of the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center. Pierson is ECU’s ninth president.

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